The Horse of Lahnau

Roman sites in Europe have been as rich in yielding archeological evidence in recent years as those in Britain.

A notable instance some years ago was the discovery at Lahnau in western Hesse by a farmer sinking a well of a gilt bronze head of a horse. This is believed to be a surviving fragment of an equestrian statue of the Emperor Augustus, and to date from the years at the beginning of the first century when the Romans were moving eastward into Germania, and before the disaster of the Teuterburg Forest. This context is set out in the Wikipedia article about the town and its neighbourhood which can be read at Lahnau

The story of the discovery can be read and the head of the horse can be seen in an article from X at ArchaeoHistories (@histories_arch)